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A suspect in a daytime gangland-style murder on College Street has been extradited from Greece to Toronto to face first-degree murder charges, police say.

Rabih Aikhalil, 27, of British Columbia, is a suspect in the murder of John Raposo, 35, who was shot several times in June 2012 on the patio of the Sicilian Café on College Street at Montrose Avenue.

The patio was crowded at the time with patrons watching the Italy-Ireland soccer game in the European Cup.

Raposo, nicknamed “Johnny Maserati” for his love of high-end cars, had been a close friend of former Canadian boxing champion and Montreal mob enforcer Eddie (The Hurricane) Melo, who was murdered in 2001 after leaving a coffee shop in a Mississauga strip mall.

At the time, the murder was described by police as a “thought-out, planned hit.” Police later said the murder plot was hatched in prison.

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Raposo’s killer was described as wearing a white filter mask on his face, like what construction workers sometimes wear.

Police accused Aikhalil of being one of the plotters, not the shooter.

He is scheduled to appear in Old City Hall court on Wednesday.

He is also charged in Quebec with being part of a massive cocaine distribution consortium involving members of the Canadian mob and Hells Angels.

He was arrested two years ago in Greece and Toronto police and officers from the RCMP and Quebec sought to have him extradited.

Aikhalil moved from Saudi Arabia to Canada as a child, settling in the Lower Mainland of B.C. and then moving to Quebec as an adult.

Martino Caputo, another suspect in the Raposo murder, was arrested in Germany. The former Toronto area resident waived extradition hearing in April 2013.

Dean Michael Wiwchar, a former Stouffville resident, was also charged. Wiwchar was under a 10-year weapon’s ban for uttering threats in prison at the time of his arrest.

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